US Army/Sgt. Calab Franklin
The Army has awarded a monster $4.62 billion contract to General Dynamics Land Systems to produce M1A2 SEPv3 tanks for the service over the next eight years.
M1A2 SEPv3, known as M1A2C, is the latest version of the venerable Abrams tank, and it has been upgraded and is set to be "the foundational variant for all future incremental upgrades."
It's been more than three years since the Army first took delivery of the first of its souped-up new version of the M1 Abrams main battle tank, and the service clearly likes what it sees.